When Paul McGann joined Big Finish in 2000, their first task was to devise him a companion. Charlotte Espleth Pollard, Charley to her friends, joined the TARDIS as a self-styled Edwardian adventuress with a joie de vivre to match the Doctor’s own. Played by India Fisher, familiar to many for her voice over work on … >
To celebrate the release of Doctor Who star Karen Gillan’s new horror movie, Oculus – in cinemas Friday 13 June – we’re giving away the ultimate horror collection (including The Conjuring, Poltergeist, The Exorcist, The Shining and of course Friday The 13th) to give away to one of our Twitter followers! Four runners-up will each … >
Visitors to the Doctor Who Experience attraction in Cardiff will no longer be able to rescue the Eleventh Doctor from the Pandorica as of 1 September. The current walk-through adventure, featuring Matt Smith, will be refreshed later this autumn to coincide with Peter Capaldi’s arrival as the Twelfth Doctor. More details on the attraction’s updated … >
Karen Gillan has been chatting about her role in Marvel’s upcoming Guardians Of The Galaxy movie. The former Doctor Who star will play the villainous Nebula in the film, alongside Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, John C. Reilly, Glenn Close, Djimon Hounsou and Benicio Del Toro. Discussing how evil her character is in the movie, Gillan told Empire: … >
A new trailer for upcoming British sci-fi thriller The Anomaly has been unveiled. Directed by Doctor Who‘s Noel Clarke, who played companion Mickey Smith, the movie also stars the Star Trek into Darkness actor alongside Ian Somerhalder (The Vampire Diaries, Lost), Brian Cox (An Adventure in Space and Time), Alexis Knapp (Pitch Perfect) and Luke … >
Doctor Who has a proud tradition of taking classic monster stories and doing its own spin on them. This was especially prevalent in the early gothic influenced Tom Baker era and ‘Last of the Colophon’ is a tale consciously cut from that cloth. Continuing his adventures with Leela, the story begins with the Doctor looking … >
Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman will visit five continents in the space of 12 days later this summer on a promotional tour for the new series of Doctor Who. The pair will be joined by showrunner Steven Moffat. Amanda Hill, chief brands officer at BBC Worldwide, commented: “Doctor Who encompasses British creativity at its best … >
For the penultimate Companion Chronicles story, we return to an old favourite. Continuing from where 2010’s ‘Find and Replace’ left off, Jo Jones (née Grant) is off on an adventure with the irrepressible Iris Wildthyme. For those not acquainted with Ms Wildthyme, the trans-temporal adventuress, suffice to say that she is a sometime ally, sometime … >
The second story in the current Fifth Doctor and Nyssa trilogy finds the pair arriving on a spaceship that serves as a floating tomb. As the resting place of the Arrit God-King, from a society the Doctor suggests had the potential to rival the Time Lords, it is a place full of complex trials and … >
Five clips have been released from Doctor Who star Karen Gillan’s new horror movie Oculus, which arrives in UK cinemas on Friday. From the producer of Paranormal Activity and Insidious, the movie also stars Battlestar Galactica actress Katee Sackhoff as the mother of Gillan’s character, Kaylie. The film’s story begins “a decade after a terrifying … >